seabee

I still feel like I'm being judged on my lifts at the gym (I know so cause most guys do it. Face it). Sucks. I don't lift as much as I used to because I learned for example that using excruciating form curling with a 90lb barbell is much more productive than making alot of noise with 120lber. I used to be that guy.

So if you go to my gym (and you all do), that's what's up with the wimpy lifts. I'm stronger than you think.

Pierzin

hey seebee,

you know something? I am a wimp! And I don't care. I wear tank-tops at my gym, and I use perfect form, and I lift puny weights. You know what my last bench was? It was 105!!! Yeah, thats right.
Everybody judges everybody else every day of the week. But you have the right thoughts. Keep lifting the smaller weight, until you feel you can move to the heavier one. i am stuck on the 25 pound dumbells for my curls, thats the same weight I have used for too - (holy shit!) for too long.

Do you know the people judging you? Are they friends of yours? Are they going to pay your chiropractor bills if you screw up your back? Are they going to pay for your pain medication & what not? no? then screw them!

You know something? I saw a dude at the bench press today & he was fucking huge. Had a big pretty chest. Fuck! I thought, why can't I be him?
Then I saw a couple dudes come in skinnier than me, about 19. Arms like toothpicks. They looked just like I did ten years ago.
change requires work.

Cheers & Good luck. - P

Determined.
Eating like a pig gone wild.

KataMaStEr

lol don’t worry about it man don’t let that crap distract you in the gym. For my age I’m pretty strong, I really haven’t been using HEAVY weights in the gym as in 1 rep max like I see so many people doing so often in the gym, for them most part most of them have good form so that’s not a problem. I know a lot of them look at me as if I’m weaker than they are. In reality I would make a lot of them look like little pussy comparing lifts. Don’t let than kind of stuff distract you, you’re there to make yourself better; Not think about what the person next to you thinks of you.

Big Smoothy

The other people at gyms working out, don't really exist to me. Some are cool, and I chat sometimes. The people at the gym are outside of my "bubble." They are not important people in my life. They are just the same as strangers on the street.

Chain Link

The problem is you hang out at the gym with all of these giant bodybuilders. Of course they're gonna look down on you as weaker. You're just setting yourself up to fall. I suggest you use my R/R/R Program.. Rest/Rep/Reap. Rest is simple.. Thats when muscle grows. Rep is for working out, that too is crucial to muscle growth.. Reap.. Thats the mental part; Reap the benefits. If you start feeling down you might give up. So you need to reward yourself. I suggest you hang out at mcdonalds. You'll leave feeling so big and athletic you wont even hear Gunter tell you to put a bra on when you go to the gym next time Plus, as you get bigger you can work up to hanging out at like.. IHOP, then convienteint stores.. and the day will eventually come when you can just hang out at the gym and think the other lifters are weak. You can then proudly take your well earned spot along the mirror with the other posers.

^New guy

Lets make LAM Board Certified!

chronic

heheh gotta be tha best routine i eva heard maybe i'll give it a try one day

Evil ANT

It's a bit disappointing seeing guys throw around a lot more weight than you, but always remember - slow and steady wins the race. It took me three years of lifting to even be able to bench 200, and almost five years to bench 300. I often think the best gains are those made slowly. They seem to stick with you longer.

animalmachine

do most guys really judge what you are lifting? it seems to me if someone is judging you based on how much weight you can lift, i will in turn judge them to be a LOSER.

Phred

Remember why you got started in weight training? Maybe it was to impress someone or you just felt compared to others you were not as physically fit or your Dr. told you to get more exercise. It really does not matter at this time. You are exercising/wt training for YOU, and no one else. It is all about you and your health. There is a certain competitiveness in that we want to feel we fit in with the others in the gym, and not like an outcast. You must get beyond that and focus on you and your goals.

I travel every few months for my job and will w/o in a gym in the town where I end up staying. So I see a lot of folks looking at me. I suspect they want to know who the FNG is and how much can he lift. I do not care. I am there for 45-60 minutes to lift some iron and leave.

Remember it is all bout you and your goals.

If you always have a great day, you will always have a great life.

"The gym offers force and pain and relief. It provides challenge and struggle and satisfaction." Dave Draper

LAM

Every day at the gym I see people using more weights than myself in certain exercises mostly because they are doing the exercises either incorrectly and/or with bad form.

Using heavy weights with bad form won't get you big or strong...

Dumbest statement made in the Anabolic Zone for Nov

TBD

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What you talking about Willis ?